Korean War, 1950-1953 - Military personnel, New Zealand

Date: 1950-1951

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-195

Description: Photographs taken for publication in the NZ Free Lance, 1950-1951 relating to the departure of K Force from Wellington on the troopship Ormonde, and in Korea. Includes photographs of named military personnel - J (Sailor) Chapman of Dunedin; Sgt A Dunn of Oamaru; Lt L W S Dickinson of New Plymouth; Gnr T H West of Christchurch; Gnr J B Christophers of Hamilton. Captain R R Harding of Napier; Lt Gen Van Fleet (Commander of Eighth Army); Brigadier B A Burke (Commander of 27th Brigade), Brigadier George Taylor (Commander of 28th Brigade). Driver P Ball of Christchurch; Gnr G A Sexton and Gnr D Wilson, both of Masterton; Gnr J Fox; Gnr J G Turnwald of Gisborne; Gnr N H Wilson of Auckland; Gnr R K Ross of Dannevirke; Signalman G A Rippin of Levin; Gnr S Spring of Eketahuna; Gnr R F Skeen and Gnr W Feeney both of Auckland; Gnr G Nelson of Wellington; J Taggart; Gnr Rex George of Wellington, and with Brig R S Park; A J Tamion of Auckland; S B Coupar of Bluff with his mother; J V Rogers of Auckland; Lt O A D Johnson of Wellington with his family; Gnr A Kahui of Wellington. Captain H Dudfield; Major General K L Stewart; Keeling (MP for Gisborne); Captain P King of Invercargill; Sgt B M Quarterman of Wellington; Sgt P J Morgan of Wellington; Sgt J R McDonald of Nelson; J L Turner of Martinborough; J G Helsby of Matangi; V C Wright of Onehunga; C R Burnett of Tuakau; D Wilson of Masterton; J W Jones of Palmerston North. Drivers H R Kelly of New Plymouth, K W Hamblyn of Dunedin, S Parkinson of Hamilton, W T Capper of Auckland, and B C Marychurch of Whangarei. Quantity: 33 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: Sep 1950, ca 1951

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-138

Description: Series of photographs taken by E Woollett of National Publicity Studios. All contain captions. Training at Linton - Early morning parade; marching formation; route march; PT exercises; rifle practice; battle training; sten gun training; rugby match between B & C troops; visit of General Stewart (General Officer Commanding NZ Forces); map reading; lesson in how to assemble a trip wire flare; photo of Colonel Thornton at his desk. Three photographs of soldiers in Korea - Sgt George Gallagher and Sgt Dick Evan (who both immigrated to NZ from UK); Bdr John McCauley of Hamilton. Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1954

Reference: Eph-A-WAR-Korean-1954-01

Description: Christmas card shows the coat of arms of the Royal NZ ASC on the front cover, and inside an aerial photograph of a camp, presumably in Korea. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Embossing, photolithograph on card, folded to 100 x 125 mm, tied with black, white and yellow ribbon Transfers: From Photographic Archive - Collection received as a whole in to Photographic Archive and transfers made from there..

Date: 24 Oct 2012

From: Milford oral history project

By: Dunsford, Deborah (Dr), active 2001-2012; Marychurch, Benjiman Cyril, 1930-

Reference: OHInt-1017-04

Description: Interview with Benjiman Cyril Marychurch. Born 1930 in Silverdale. Explains origins of the name Marychurch, and parents' arrival to New Zealand from England, and that his father had worked as a steam engineer on ships travelling between England and New Zealand. Also discusses his father's military service for New Zealand as an ANZAC. Explains that his father won a returned serviceman's ballot for a dairy farm in Coatesville with about a dozen cows. Describes farm work and the family's experiences during the depression. Discusses his family life and his experience of being one of 13 children. Discusses schooling at Coatesville School, and the new school building in 1942. Left school after Standard 2 due to transport problems. Describes difficulty finding apprenticeships at the end of World War Two. Describes long daily journey to apprenticeship in Onehunga. Refers to costs of travel and wages. Describes school picnic at Milford, which included swimming, running races, tug of war, and other activities. Recounts cycling with friends to Beachhaven or Milford, and talks about Pirate Shippe. Compares going to Milford in the 1930s-40s with going to Waiheke Island in 2012. Describes features of the Milford Swimming Pool, and swimming lessons at a creek in Coatesville. Discusses American soldiers that frequented the swimming pool. Describes their uniforms and the soldiers' interactions with children and his father. Mother did not like the war because her eldest son had been killed in action in Egypt in 1940. Tells of his older brother, Roy Marychurch, who had a retail wood and coalyard in Milford. Tells that silent movies shown at Coatesville Hall, and that electricity came to Coatsville in 1937. Describes getting dressed up to go to the movies, and going to city barefoot to buy shoes. Describes working at A & T Burt brass foundry, and learning woodwork. Describes an upholstery apprenticeship, and a farm labouring job near Whangarei. Tells of volunteering for army service in Korea. Describes dairy farming work, cycling and playing rugby. Belonged to the Whangarei Ballroom Dancing Club and Operatic Society, and performed in Whangarei, Warkworth, and Dargaville. Tells of dancing at the Pirate Shippe, and describes decorations, bands, dances, prizes, and supper. Describes heating hot water and giving out food and drinks at dances at Coatesville Hall. Discusses alcohol at dances. Describes his experience in the K-Force in Korea, basic training at Papakura, and taking the Wahine from Wellington. Describes medical examination, and his duties as troop carrier and supplies carrier, and his job as car trimmer. Describes extreme cold of Korea, workshops and living conditions under canvas. Describes going to a dance and meeting his wife, Fumiko Yamamoto. Describes courtship and marriage, and her parents' attitudes to marriage. Describes difficulty for westerners living in Japan, and his parents' attitudes to Fumiko as a daughter-in-law when they returned to New Zealand in 1954. Describes going to dancing at the Pirate Shippe, and dances at Albany Hall and Greenhithe Hall. Discusses closure of the Pirate Shippe and swimming pool. Interviewer(s) - Deborah Dunsford Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete.

Date: Sep 1950, Mar 1951

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Woollett, E, active 1951-1955

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-136

Description: Series of photographs taken by E Woollett (Linton), and Mr Walker (cricket) of National Publicity Studios. All contain captions. Training at Linton - Exercises with poles; confidence course; preliminary battle training; class room lecture (Capt E R Firth); map reading (Eric Eves & McLeod brothers); route march; sten gun instruction (Bruce Dick, Roy Saunders and Phillip Hansen); first parade. Portraits of - Colonel Thornton (CO Linton Military Camp); John Brathwaite and Tom Fraser (recent English immigrants); 2nd Lt R W Odlin (English immigrant); 2nd Lt N L Miller & 2nd Lt C Gardiner; Roy Hugh McKenzie (padre); Charles Bell (ex Maori Battalion); B A Corbett; Noel and Douglas Bevins of Palmerston North. Departure for and arrival at Linton - Assembled for transport; group of officer recruits (Miller, Davis, Johnson, Gardiner, Odlin, Mason, Moloughney, Llewellyn, Stanbridge & Petersen); Wellington Contingent on platform at Wellington railway station prior to boarding train for Linton; E G Eves & R Churcher on board the train; McClelland & Tews being farewelled by the Tews sisters; G A Bramley being fitted for fatigue drills by Cpl Ratapu; dental check-up for D J Anderson with WAAC Corporal E A Nairn and Lt/Col W M Ford; R E Christensen receiving his rifle and equipment. Three photographs taken during second cricket test between England and NZ at the Basin Reserve, Wellington, March 1951 Quantity: 41 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Aug 1951

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Christensen, Edward Percival, 1907-1982

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-137

Description: Series of photographs taken by Mr Christensen of National Publicity Studios. All contain captions. Series of photographs taken in Aug 1951 just prior to and departure on transport ship `Wahine' from Wellington - Arrival of `K'Force draft by train prior to embarking; loading supplies on `Wahine'; soldiers relaxing in their quarters on board; soldiers doing kitchen fatigue; group photo on board ship (individuals not named); meal in the dining room; departure from wharves (crowd scenes). Group photograph (Johnston, Walter Nash, Stewart and Lt Col O'Leary); individual photos of Lt Col O'Leary; Captain Johnston with Lt Col O'Leary. Quantity: 67 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca1946-1948, ca1951-1954, 1976]

By: Smith, John Lindsay, 1926-2002

Reference: PAColl-9303

Description: Photographs relating to World War II, J Force, the Korean War, and Smith's career in the New Zealand Army. First sequence shows Smith and other soldiers in army Jayforce quarters in Japan and with civilians. Shows some war damage. lncludes views of Kobe, Osaka, Kyushu and Hiroshima. Shows a number of street scenes and groups of Japanese people. Several scenic views and photographs of shrines. Taken around 1946-1948. Second sequence contains photographs taken during the Korean War when Smith was part of the army volunteer Kayforce which fought in Korea 1951-1954. Shows various outposts and command posts in the countryside, as well as artillery guns firing. Includes a view of Seoul and hamlets nearby. Also shows Canadian and Australian troops and marine helicopters. Collection also includes a group portrait of the senior personnel attending the Field Force Annual Exercise in 1976. Brigadier John Smith is seated in the front row. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 192 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s) (postcards). 12 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1693 : Smith, John Lindsay, b 1926 : Papers.

Date: [2000-2008]

By: New Zealand. Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage

Reference: ATL-Group-00867

Description: Collection comprises sets of completed questionnaires by New Zealanders who served in World War II, on the Crete, North African and Italian and Pacific campaigns. Further sets of questionnaires are from New Zealanders who served on the D-Day landings in Normandy, and in the Fleet Air Arm, as prisoners of war and those who served on the home front. There are also questionnaires from New Zealanders who were engaged with the post-war occupation of Japan (J-Force) and in the Korean War. Most of the respondents were not selected for further interviews. However, while some replies to the questionnaire are brief, others include photographs, an audiocassette, self-published reminiscences, cuttings, scrapbooks, ephemera and expanded answers, often covering several extra pages. To retain their context, photographs have been kept with the relevant contributors' papers. Source of title - Supplied Arrangement: The questionnaires and related material have been divided into series reflecting the subject matter of the interviews. An additional series was created to cover material where the source was unknown. Between 2000 and 2007 Megan Hutching and Alison Parr as oral historians at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage worked on a large oral history project interviewing men and women who had served New Zealand during the Second World War. To this end they circulated questionnaires among likely sources of information. From the replies they selected and interviewed some of respondents. The interviews were edited in association with the historian Dr Ian McGibbon, to form the basis of six books which were published by HarperCollins New Zealand between 2001 and 2007. Alison Parr also edited further books on D-Day, J-Force and the occupation of Japan, and on New Zealand participation in the Korean War. Quantity: 69 folder(s). 0.70 Linear Metres. 1 C90 cassette(s). Physical Description: Mss with photocopied material, printed matter, photographs, sound recording Provenance: The records were held by the creator of the project, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage before being donated to the Library between 2004 and 2014 by the oral historians. Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts. Transfers made from here. - See also Oral history collection for questionnaires of people who were interviewed; See also Second World War - Crete oral history project OHColl-0729. Processing information: Folders Ms-Papers-12720-1 and MS-Papers-12720-2 were added to the collection in 2022. Therefore series 7 and series 8 folders are not in strict alphabetical arrangement by last name of interviewee.

Date: 1940-1983

From: Gentry, William George (Sir), 1899-1991: Photograph albums

By: Green & Hahn (Firm); Wood, W J (Private), active 1945

Reference: PA1-q-1139

Description: Photograph album compiled by Sir William Gentry, chiefly relating to his military career (between 1940 and circa 1955), but also some family holiday snaps as well as two colour images from after his retirement. Some family snap shots are likely to have been taken by Gentry, but for most images the photographer is unidentified. - World War II images feature scenes from army life, mainly during the final campaign and after Allied victory in Europe. Locations featured are in Egypt (Maadi, Alamein) and Italy (Trieste, Venice, Lake Como, Lake Garda, Bolonga, Pisa, Miramere Castle). Events such as the New Zealand Infantry Brigade Ceremonial Parade (Fabriano, Italy, March 1945), Christmas Day Donkey Derby (1944), fishing in the Dead Sea on the 'SS New Zelandia', rugby match between divisions in Fabriano, and El Alamein memorial service (9 Nov 1945) are covered. There is a focus on General Bernard Freyberg, with whom Gentry worked closely during the campaigns in North Africa in 1941-1942. Also contains images of military convoys, meetings (including 1 March 1943), camps, and officers' meals. Miscellaneous images also show bridges and the wreckage of bridges (with Adige River, River Po). - A series of formal and informal group portraits relate to Gentry's time at the Imperial Defence College, England (1948). These include the official class photograph (wearing suits, see album for name listing), and another with subjects in military attire. Related images from this period show Larkhill (1948), a military group in an air hangar in Bristol, and a shot of A M Slessor greeting King George VI. Also contains an Aug 1963 group portrait taken at a reunion dinner of Imperial Defence College attendees in Shelly Bay, Wellington (see album for name listing). - Contains photographs from Asia and the Pacific following Gentry's promotion to Major General in 1952. Images of conflicts cover the Korean War (1951) and the First Indochina War (1953). The latter series show Gentry inspecting troops with General Henri Eugene Navarre and General Rene Cogny (Hanoi), with personnel in Quang Yen and at a concession post, and smoking with General Georges Masson at Nam Dinh. Also a number of Vietnamese landscapes (Reo River Delta, Baie D'Along, and Plain Des Jarres) and an aerial photograph of Haiphong. Further images from Laos (1953) depict discussions at a military camp and parade in Vientiane. Images of military conferences relating to the Pacific region are also contained in the album; Gentry is shown at SEATO (Bangkok), [COGS?] (1954), and as New Zealand's representative at the first ANZUS meeting with Lieutenant General S.F. Rowell and Admiral A.W. Radford (Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, 1952). Hawaian images also show Gentry inspecting a marine guard in Honolulu and tourist colour prints of a volcanic eruption. Also images of Gentry visiting the Fijian Armed Forces and inspecting troops with Queen Elizabeth in New Zealand. - Named figures in group portraits and at events include: Lieutenant-Colonel Albert (Bert) William O'Reilly, Major Denis Wood Porter, and Lieutenant-Colonel James (Jim) Leonard Williams getting awards from General Freyberg; Freyberg, Brigadier Leonard Whitmore Thornton, Brigadier S H Chump, Gentry, and Major C K Reed at El Alamein memorial ceremony (photographed by Private W J Wood); [John Henry?] Nankivell and Buckley at Guadalcanal; Winston Churchill with Gentry and others; Gentry, Molly Raynor (actress in 'On Approval'), Dan Sullivan and Sir Keith Park backstage after performance at the Garrison Theatre; Lieutenant-Colonel H [Ramada-?] with Gentry and the 1st Cavalry Regiment; and Gentry, Major General Graham Beresford (Ike) Parkinson, Keith Stewart, and Brigadier Raymond (Ray) Candish Queree in front of a map (photographed by Green and Hahn, Christchurch [ca 1952]). Others names include Jim Burrows, Major Jock I Thodey, Field Marshall Alexander, General Charles Walter Allfrey, Frame, and [Buffet?]. See name listing for [RCDC?] 1978 reunion dinner (Shelly Bay, Wellington). Contains formal military portrait of Gentry [1942] and two images at an army reunion in Pakuranga [198-?]. - Also contains a set of 82 family snap shots taken at a range of locations including London, England, during the 1948 Olympic Games. Family members featured are son Steven, daughter ? and wife Alexandra (known as Lalla). Images include the voyage to England, Olympic athletics events at Wembley Stadium (Empire Stadium) as well as a race on the streets [marathon?], a variety of buildings and landscapes, and a parade of the Royal Order of the Garter at Windsor Castle with notable persons including Princess Elizabeth, her husband Phillip, and King George VI and his queen consort Elizabeth. Also includes views of Capetown (Table Mountain) and Sydney (Harbour Bridge) from at sea, girl guides, camping, fishing, beach scenes, an unidentified wedding, the farewell of Lord and Lady Freyberg, and the Gentry family in Melbourne in 1949. - Ephemera includes notice dropped by the Royal Air Force behind German lines giving the phonetic English for 'I surrender', a newspaper clipping (with photograph) about Gentry being met off the troopship by his father Major F C Gentry, the programme for the 30 Corps Order of Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance after the capture of Tripoli, autographed menu from General Freyberg's farewell dinner at the Hotel Baglioni in Florence, two clippings relating to son Lieutenant Steven Gentry's supervision of the army's erection of a suspension bridge over the Waitotauru stream, and a Greek first day cover from 1981 commemorating the Battle of Crete. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Photograph album

Date: 4 Jul 2002 - 22 Mar 2011

By: Farrell, Peter, active 1984-2005; O'Dwyer, Noel (Captain), active 1955-1991; Pye, Leslie John, 1931-; Walker, William Greening, 1943-; Wightman, David Ross, 1929-

Reference: OHColl-1141

Description: Interviews with members of the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps (RNZAC) Association covering the post-WWII period, as a resource for a future history of the RNZAC. The interviewees are representatives from the units, organisations and formations of the RNZAC, who describe their early lives and education, experiences with vehicles and equipment, and experiences as troopers and as members of the RNZAC. Subjects covered include compulsory military training, army life, School of Armour, Territorial Force, New Zealand Scottish Regiment, training at Waikato, Waiouru, Trentham and Burnham, and nursing at Waiouru Hospital. Also described are J Force, K Force, V Force, and peace-keeping in India, Pakistan and the Middle East. Interviewees are WO2 Leonard Arthur Appleford, Maj Paul William Andrews Bevin, WO2 Murray Thomas Blackley, 2Lt Ian Bell Blair, Col Ian Moorcroft Bolton, Col James Brown, Lt Col Colin Charles Brown, Maj David John (Jack) Brunton, Cpl Albert Ronald (Blue) Burrell, WO2 Peter Alfred Callahan, Sgt Leslie McGregor Cantwell, Cpl Ian Gerald Cawte, Col Brian David Chippindale, WO1 Christopher Andrew Cooper, Sgt Pedro Leonardo de Treend, WO2 Barry William Downs, Brig Ian James Duthie, Maj Cyril Patrick Dyson, Capt Robert William Fox, Maj Richard Sibbald Fox, S Sgt Arthur George Frederikson, Col William Alexander French, Brig John Harold Gray, Capt William Ballantine Grupen, WO1 Michael Joseph Gullery with his wife, Ethne Gullery, Col Harold Thomas Harris, WO2 Paul Winston Hawke, Lt Teresa Holder (nee Mortimer), Maj David Stewart Johns, Sgt Bruce Martin Keddie, Lt & QM Athol John King, Maj Ian Richard Lambeth, Maj John James Lane, Lt & QM Ronald Charles Lee, Maj Colin Geddes McKay, WO1 Morris Raymond Meha, Maj Gen Bruce Meldrum, Capt Noel Peter O'Dwyer, Capt Lawrence Arthur Comyn Pigou, Maj Leslie John Pye, Maj Harry Russell, Lt Col Neal Conelly Schofield, Capt John Hannay Scott, Maj Desmond Dynes Sharp, Lt Col William Alexander Simpson, Col Robert Knight Storey, WO1 William Greening Walker, Maj David Ross Wightman, WO1 Robert George Williams Accompanying material - project documentation, biographical data. Some interviews include obituaries, articles, reports and service records Interviewer(s) - David John (Jack) Brunton Interviewer(s) - Peter Russell Farrell Interviewer(s) - Harold Thomas Harris Interviewer(s) - Ronald Charles Lee Interviewer(s) - Trevor McComish Interviewer(s) - Chris Wotton Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-023894 - OHC-023973 Abstracts: OHA-7837 - OHA-7885 Quantity: 44 C60 cassette(s). 36 C90 cassette(s). 55 printed abstract(s). 55 interview(s). 92.45 Hours and minutes Duration. 1 digital sound recording(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete some are very brief. Some copies of photos depicting army life are included with 10 of the interviews Search dates: 2002 - 2011 Processing information: Interviews not yet described

Date: 6 October 1951

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: K-0470-F

Description: Members of the Regimental Survey Team felling logs to build themselves a log cabin for the winter. In the foreground is Gunner M Traue of Gisborne and behind him is Gunner Reg Whalley of Christchurch. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 10 x 7.2 cm

Date: 21 December 1951

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016

Reference: K-0625-F

Description: Original caption reads: "Two gunners of the 16th NZ Fld Regt peer out of the windows of their dug-in hut. They are: Gnr Phil Hansen, Petone, left; and L/Bdr Hori Chesnutt, Taihape". Photograph taken in Korea, 21 December 1951, by Ian Mackley. Identified from original print from this negative at PA1-q-311-0573 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: [1951 or 1952]

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

By: Mackley, Ian Chappell, 1928-2016

Reference: K-0643-F

Description: Original caption reads: "Three Kiwi sappers have a beer outside their hut. Spr Graham McClelland, Wellington; Spr Arthur Green, Masterton; and Cpl John Fraser, Auckland". Photograph taken in Korea, 1951-1952, by Ian Mackley. Identified from original print from this negative at PA1-q-311-0643 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative